Monday, October 27, 2014

Finished Graduate School

At last, I am finished with my thesis and I am done with my final defense. It took me almost two year to finish this so I was very happy. I gave a lot of effort, time and of course money just to finish this study all for the noble intention of contributing to the "field of knowledge". Since I am done, I presently hold a Master's degree in Education major in Special Education. Anyway, here is the abstract of my study. If anyone is interested (if there is any...hehe), you may contact me so that I could give you an electronic copy.

This descriptive-correlational
study determined the societal and personal attitudes of elementary teachers in
the Division of Iloilo City. A total of 321 randomly selected respondents who
are public elementary school teachers participated in the study. To gather data,
two instruments were used. Modified versions of the Attitudes Toward Disabled
Persons Scale (ATDP) by Yuker and Block (1970) was used to assess the societal
attitudes toward persons with disabilities, while the Interaction with Disabled
Persons Scale by Gething (1991) was used to measure the personal attitudes
toward persons with disabilities. Mean and standard deviation were the
descriptive statistics while the T-test for Independent Samples, One-way ANOVA
and Pearson’s r Correlation, all set at.05 level of significance, were the
inferential statistics used. The results revealed that whether taken as an
entire group or classified according to sex, age, educational level, contact
and type of disability, both the societal and personal attitudes of elementary
teachers toward persons with disabilities were negative. No significant
difference existed on the societal attitudes of elementary teachers when they
were grouped according to sex, age, contact and type of disability. However, a
significant difference was found on the societal attitudes if the respondents
were grouped according to educational level, indicating that those with
graduate school units or degree manifested less negative societal attitudes
toward persons with disabilities. Moreover, there was no significant difference
in the personal attitudes toward persons with disabilities if the respondents
were classified according to sex, age, educational level, contact and type of
disability. The results also indicated a
significant positive relationship between the societal and personal attitudes
of elementary teachers toward persons with disabilities.